8. Fast-Food Workers Intensify Fight for $15 an Hour
About 1,200 workers from around the country gathered in Illinois at an event largely underwritten by the Service Employees International Union, but the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is dubious of the union’s intentions.

5. Supermanagers and the social psychology of wealth
About the differences between the last, early-20th-century inequality peak and today. ie. the composition of wealth and income has changed: more of the income of the wealthy today comes from (ostensibly, at least) work.

From the Week of June 29 – July 5
1. The C.E.O. Is My Friend. So Back Off.
A study’s surprising finding: If company directors have disclosed that they’re friends with the chief executive, they’re even more likely to try to give him a bonus.

3. Secrecy of Dark Pools Can Blur Both Ways
The reason for creating dark pools was to protect large investors from predatory trading, but what seems to have escaped notice is that a lack of transparency is almost sure to invite abuses, Peter J. Henning writes in the White Collar Watch column.

4. Financial Markets
– Central Bankers, Worried About Bubbles, Rebuke Markets
In its annual report, the Bank for International Settlements expressed concern about investors driving up asset prices with little regard for the risks.
– Beyond Stagnation
Larry Summers, former economic adviser to both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, laid out a decidedly pessimistic view of the U.S. economy.